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though they should he eglandular. Their shape is variable, but 

 as a rule they are long in proportion to their width, and they are 

 rather large. The prickles should be straightish and subulate, 

 and the styles subglabrous. Specimens with more hairy leaflets 

 are probal^ly referable to B. confusa, and if they have subfoliar 

 glands, or at any rate more than a few inconspicuous ones on the 

 primary nerves, they must be referred elsewhere. Sudre regards 

 both Eouy's varieties of R. tomentosa — var. normalis and var. 

 ovoidea — as covering B. scabriuscula, but the former has some of 

 its leaflets more or less glandular, while the latter has rising 

 sepals, so neither is a very satisfactory synonym. V.-c. 3, 5, 6, 

 23, 84, 49, 58, 67, 78. 



E. FCETiDA Bast. Ess. Fl. Maine & Loire, Suppl. p. 29. This 

 differs from B. scahriuscula in its leaflets being decidedly glandu- 

 lar beneath, and usually more hairy and broader. The styles also 

 are more constantly glabrous. I think it is as common in Britain 

 as B. scahriuscula, even if the latter be made to include B. confusa. 

 My No. 1447, B. E. C. Kept. 1906, p. 222, is, I think, best referred 

 to B. scahriuscula. V.-c. 2, 3, 11, 14, 16, 17, 24, 32, 34?, 53, 58, 

 62, Cork. 



R. CONFUSA Pug. ex Des^gl. Cat. Rais. p. 319. Though I have 

 no confirmation from Sudre or Dingier (who have not seen any of 

 the specimens I place here), I think this name must be adopted 

 for the more softly hairy-leaved plants usually referred to B. 

 scahriuscula, but which Ley always dissented from. In addition, 

 the sepals should be more erect and subpersistent, but I find this 

 character does not always go with more pubescent leaflets. 

 Otherwise the species is closely allied to B. scabriuscula. Ley 

 labels all his specimens B. tomentosa, from which their glabrous 

 styles should always distinguish them. His Cowleigh, Hereford, 

 specimens (Bot. Exch. Club Rept. 1910, p. 539, and Wats. Club 

 Rept. 1910) belong here. V.-c. 34, 36, 40, 50. 



R. TOMENTOSA var. SYLVESTRis Woods, in Trans. Linn. Soc. xii. 

 p. 202. This is intermediate, in so far as its leaf clothing is con- 

 cerned, between B. scahriuscula and B. fcetida, having them sub- 

 glabrous, as in the former species, but glandular, as in B. fatida. 

 The prickles are, as a rule, more falcate or even uncinate, and its 

 styles often somewhat hispid. It is not mentioned by any foreign 

 author, and is probably included in B. fcetida, though var. Arron- 

 clcBana Rouy must be very near it, and is the name given by Sudre 

 to the only specimen he has seen, from Hereford {Ley). Dingier 

 also has only seen one, from Cheshire, which he labels B. fostida. 

 British authors have referred plants I place here to B. cuspi- 

 datoides, B. j^seudo-ruhiginosa (the name Ley gives to two remark- 

 ably small-leaved examples from Surrey and W. Kent, certainly 

 not that species, and only provisionally placed here as very aber- 

 rant forms), B. scahriuscula and B. tovientosa. V.-c. 4, 16, 17 '?, 

 23, 36, 40, 43, 58, 79. 



R. JuNDziLLiANA Baker, Rev. p. 21. Though this name must 

 not be retained permanently, I use it until I am in a better posi- 



